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[another_guest]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Sep 10 2007, 06:17 AM) [snapback]309975[/snapback]</div>

i think it's more like 6 or 7 countries lost already...

my problem is not to shoot it down. the problem is to catch the UFO. because even if interception beginsby going towards it they still try to catch it from behind and fail. it doesn't even get me to the battle window.

Maybe i should try avenger craft... only in X-Com2 that other craft was quite sluggish... i have no problem in shooting down the aliens with the plasma or fusion balls... well i will still ive it a try next week... see what happens.

if read in one FAQ you can only survive with few countries, so i might stop carring about them afterall a single small downed UFO provides more money then any of them...
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1. Have you tried aggressive attack, since that reduces the chances of the UFO outrunning your interceptor/...? Though you risk sustaining more damage.

2. The avenger is by far the fastest craft (5400 km/h compared to 2100 for interceptors and 4200 for the lightning; forgot the name and speed of the fourth, probably 3100)

3. At least try to keep as many countries as possible: late in the game money is never an issue, but slowly losing countries can kill you no matter how good you are in the missions...

[gregor]

1. i did not even manage to get to that screen.

2. ah that's right!!! they are fastest only slow with acceleration.... yah i have to try them, they should be able to catch the big one then....

[Incappucciato d'Ombra]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Sep 10 2007, 10:21 AM) [snapback]310020[/snapback]</div>

1. i did not even manage to get to that screen.

2. ah that's right!!! they are fastest only slow with acceleration.... yah i have to try them, they should be able to catch the big one then....
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Easy to solve :

as already said using Avenger solve the problem, but if you had interceptor and/or Lightning you need to locate the targeted Nation before Battleship arrive on map. This means : seek the firsts scouting Ufo with "infiltration mission", continue to follow the UFO until his speed and altitude goes down (slow/very slow - low/very low) only at this point disintegrated the bastard !

Now you know the Nation is near or very near (UFO's always land directly onto capital or very nearly to it).

When Battleship appear don't intercept it directly, but send all 4 interceptors near the capital and put them in patrol mission. When Battleship approach the targeted landing site, it will slow his velocity... at this point ...

BANZAAAIIIII !

Give interception orders at all of yours interceptors and manage to shotdown the ugly bastard (a little practic is required, nothing special).


Another note : I've re-read the manual and the walkthrought and i remembered well, game will be lost only if :

1) You were in debt for over $1,000,000 for two months.**Your
sponsors had had enough of your mismanagement and terminated the
XCOM project.**Earth was conquered by aliens not long after.

2) You had two consecutive "badly losing" months (big negative
score, see next section), and your sponsors had had enough and
terminated XCOM project.**Just how bad is a "badly losing" month
depends on your score and difficulty level (Scoring is explained
in OSG Chapter 1 and next section).

3) You lost all of your bases to the aliens.

4) You failed to complete the "final mission" (see above).

5) (from another F.A.Q.) you lost ALL the nation to alien

So, if you take in mind the advice of Another Guest (point 3 of his post) you are already near to victory

[gregor]

yah i checked the FAQ and saw that the Avenger has also the fastest acceleration (in Xcom the big craft had highest speed, but not acceleration). so that ship should do it.

so it seems you should lose all countries to actualyl lose the game... well that's cool. and a bit logical. well my problem was that ufo is having direction as Australasia, but in fact it is comming from Indian ocean, going over Asia to Europe and then up north where its tracking gets lost. must be it wan't to go to Australia over north. well not on my watch. Two Avengers are waiting in the hangar on their route with a bunch of lightnings and interceptors...

also i need one more month or maybe two finish the training in PSI labs and to get my best men (the terminators) healed. and ofcourse to transfer them all to one base. then we are off to Mars and may the AI help them cause god sure wont....

I d/l'd the windows version of enemy unknown and I clicked the UFO link and the game works fine, but I can't see the very furthest right part of the screen. Any idea how to fix this please? Thank you.

[Japo]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Anonymous @ Sep 13 2007, 01:42 PM) [snapback]310611[/snapback]</div>

I d/l'd the windows version of enemy unknown and I clicked the UFO link and the game works fine, but I can't see the very furthest right part of the screen. Any idea how to fix this please? Thank you.[/b]

Try right-clicking on the link, selecting Properties, going to the Compatibility tab, and enable run in 640x480. Just a guess though, hope it works.

[CaptainHowdy]

Okay I am having a small problem and am looking for advice.
I read the 195 pages for about half an hour and finally gave up and decided I should just ask.
I would like to run the dos version of the game that I have downloaded from this website but I can not get anything to load.

I use dosbox portable that I have downloaded from PortableApps and I can get many other games to run without any problem however nothing will run with Xcom.

I can get the some of the files to load such as full.bat but then at the top of my dosbox window it switches from "GO" to "TACTICAL" to "GEOSCAPE" very quickly like multiple times per second and the window simply still remains black I can slow down dosbox to like 19 and watch it change almost every second

I read on the forum about using ufocd.bat but that didnt do anything at all

so I am looking for any advice on how to get this game to run because I really want it to be portable so I can just take it with me anywhere like to work or with me to school

also I have gotten the program to run with the regular version through windows xp but I dont know how to make it run in windowed mode which is what I need.

So anyway any help from anyone would be really great

Thanks
CaptainHowdy k:

[gregor]

for windowed mode in normal dosbox you would need to give it command:

fullscreen=false

You can change it in the dosbox.conf.

dont' know about portable and why it doesn't work. not much benefit there as you can take the regular version and just use that one...

It didn't work. I'm not in that mode anyways. I'm in 1024x768 pixel mode. I changed my Icons on my desktop so that I could see them all though. Could that somehow be the problem? I'm using windows XP.

I tried getting the DOS version to work in DOSBOX, and it works fine except there's no sound. I suppose I have to use the long way to run it with sound? (Instead of just placing the batch file in DOSBOX)

[The Fifth Horseman]

Run the game's setup. Configure it to use Sound Blaster 16 (or Pro II, or Pro, or "plain" SB if none of he prior are pesent), IRQ 7, DMA 1, Adress 220.